Rick Riordan Quotes

If a child wants to read 'Twilight' over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged - the important thing is to get them reading in the first place.

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.

I'm just trying to get kids motivated to be readers by connecting them with a book they like.

I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.

The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

I think it's so important for young readers to find a book or series that ignites their passion for reading, especially boys, whose interest in reading wanes as they grow older.

The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.

I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.

I loved to read and would read anything that roused my interest, whether it was below my age level or above it, even if I could barely make sense of it.

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.

I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learned to love reading.

I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.

I am not a big reader to begin with.

Every generation likes to think that children don't read as much as they used to when they were young! You listen to some adults saying they were going around reading 'Ulysses' when they were seven or eight! I think children are voracious readers if you give them the right books and if you make those books accessible to them.

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

I don't read a lot of books.

I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.